Colleges urged to take sexual assault cases more seriously

50 schools work to promote awareness of laws

12:56 AM,
Apr. 30, 2013

Written by

Mary Beth Marklein
| USA Today

Pressure on college and university administrations to take sexual assault cases more seriously is intensifying, and activists promise more lobbying as the school year nears an end.

? Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., canceled classes for one day last week following a dust-up in which protesters - citing instances of sexual assault, racism and homophobia - shouted "Dartmouth has a problem" to prospective students making campus visits.

? Prominent attorney Gloria Allred, flanked at a news conference earlier this month by more than a dozen young women, announced she was filing a federal ...